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1 week ago | 
medium.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Real human connection is migrating from Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms to WhatsApp, Discord and group chats. These are the cool, quiet corners of the internet where there’s no algorithm, no brand-building, no pressure to perform. It’s not so much a tech obituary as it is a cultural reckoning — a retreat from public performance toward private connection. Users are burning out. There’s a pushback from curating personas, chasing engagement, and pretending everything is fine.
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1 week ago | 
futureaudiophile.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Reading Time: 11 minutesThere are many stereotypes in the audiophile world that need a little disruption. Okay, there are a lot. One of them is that somehow bass response is always better from a big floorstanding loudspeaker, and that any audiophile should invest his or her money more in larger loudspeakers than smaller, stand-mount ones.
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1 month ago | 
futureaudiophile.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Reading Time: 12 minutesRarely, if ever, do I mention that I live in Pacific Palisades, California in my reviews or opinion pieces. If it is ever relevant in an article or social media post, I say that I live in Los Angeles, which is 100 percent factually accurate. As part of the City of Angels, Pacific Palisades is a toney, beachy community that is nestled between Malibu and Santa Monica.
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1 month ago | 
radioworld.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Will Forcing Radio Out of the Car Dash Save Consumers Money? Makers of the new $20,000 electric Slate Truck seem to think so The author of this commentary is the publisher of Inside Music Media, where this commentary first appeared. Subscription info can be found here.
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1 month ago | 
audioholics.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Ask a finance expert and they will tell you that nothing upsets markets more than uncertainty. Nearly every Millennial was too young to experience the 2008 recession, and yes, it has been that long. Other countries, many without the low-cost labor found in the United States, went into a recession because of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet, the U.S. quickly rebounded. Things have been good economically in the United States for an abnormally long time.
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1 month ago | 
futureaudiophile.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Reading Time: 8 minutesUpmarket headphones today are as much of a fashion statement as a technological one. For many audiophiles, wearing a pair of Bose or Sony doesn’t send the right message. For others, having a gorgeous-looking set of headphones with some audiophile sonic credibility is also appealing. That’s where the $399 per pair Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S3e headphones come in.
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1 month ago | 
futureaudiophile.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Reading Time: 8 minutesToday’s audiophile gear has gotten so goodand so affordable that it is amazing. We talk a lot about Chi-Fi, but that is far from the end of the volume of top-performing audiophile gear in the market today. There are all sorts of sub-$1,000 components worthy of consideration that, in the modern market, can perform at really high levels. Global manufacturing (pre-Trump tariffs) has created real value.
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1 month ago | 
futureaudiophile.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Reading Time: 10 minutesMuch like the FutureAudiophile.com crew, Linear Tube Audio’s team tends to attend the best regional audiophile shows all over the continent. Nicholas and his team are a fun-loving group of guys, and their audiophile-grade hotel room demos always sound notably good without being anywhere close to what one would consider expensive by audiophile standards.
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1 month ago | 
futureaudiophile.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Reading Time: 4 minutesPS Audio just announced its all-new PMG Signature Series of top-of-the-line ultimate-performance audio components. The four models in the series include the PMG Signature Preamplifier, PMG Signature 512 PureStream DAC,PMG Signature Phono Preamplifier and PMG Signature SACD Transport. All are designed from the ground up to offer spectacular new levels of performance and musical realism.
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2 months ago | 
futureaudiophile.com | Jerry Del Colliano
Reading Time: 8 minutesBeing exiled from our home because of the Palisades Fire, we are now living 125 miles south in San Diego, which in a matter of days has jogged some long-forgotten, geographically specific audiophile memories. When I was in Music and Business school at USC, my college girlfriend lived in North County San Diego, thus I was down this way every other weekend, and I just loved it.
